When my mother was in her 60's, she had to have a heart procedure. It was scary. And at the time, I found it all very odd. There is no reported history in any of my ancestors of heart problems! Where did this anomaly come from? It was only years later than I knew: her 30 odd years…
I love real life stories! In fact, I think those kind of testimonies are some of the most influential ways to help others. And Erin's story below really struck me. She spent years ignoring the idea that her T4 treatment with Synthroid and later Levoxyl just might explain all the growing problems she was having.…
With a recent Italian study hypothesizing a significant correlation between T4-only levothyroxine use and lung cancer because of "oxidative stress" (possibly due to the serum peak of T4), or the same oxidative stress simply from the hypothyroidism itself, it spurs curiosity as to what oxidative stress is about and what we, as thyroid patients, can…
After worldwide patient experience has revealed that T4-only treatment results in a slew of continuing hypothyroid symptoms, now we have a study which implies that T4-only treatment could be raising your risk of LUNG CANCER. This complete study came out just last Thursday, August 8, 2013, in the Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology journal and it's certainly not…
A new thyroid patient asks others if they could turn back the clock, would they have started on Natural Desiccated Thyroid instead of T4-only. And the vast majority who answered said unequivocally YES!! Read all their replies.